The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1946, Page 1

— | K } THE DAILY ALASKA KMPIRE ‘ALL TIII" NEWS HI IIII' TIME” = —1 %T\ESOCIKTFB PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS I 'WORLD CELEBRATES ARRIVAL OF 1946 " MARSHALL IS " SLATED FOR PEACEMAKER ‘ General WiITP_robany Be . Mediator in China's Turbulent Affairs 4T 8 ] [ George C. Marshall conferred for two hours today with Communist Gen. Chou En-lai amid indications the American war leader would accept the role of peacgmaker in China’s turbulent internal affairs The Presidential Envoy's staff declined to disclose the nature of the discussions, but it was be- lieved the conversion covered a wide range—including particularly the Communists’ proposal for an unconditional truce in. the fighting ‘in North China and the central government’s counter proposal. Although the Communists viously had presented their side in broad outline to Gen. Marshall it was the first long talk between the two. The meeting signifying that [ pre- was considered as the Communists are not opposed to the idea of Marshall acting as mediator be- tween them and the Central Gov- ernment. It was indicated earlier by a member of Marshall's staff| that he would accept the role of . peacemaker. ‘The spokesman 4 Presidential Envoy said that the obviously could not announce his stand until the « Communists had replied to the government's peace proposals, but « that it was a “pretty good assump- tion” that the Central Government had consulted the American war leader. — - — . STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denaii, from the south, scheduled to arrive at 2:30 o'clock this after- noon enroute to Sitka. Princess Norah, from Skagway, due in port at 5 o'clock tomorrow | morning and sails south two hours | later, at 7 a. m. Baranof, from the westward, bound south, due tonight or tomorrow. No definite word at noon today. Taku, from Seattle, due fomorrow | afternoon. North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Yukon scheduled to Seattle Friday. Steamer Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle January 10; due here 13th or 14th; then goes to Sitka, not to westward. sail from The Washington DE GAULLE Merry - Go Round By DRFW FEARSON before Gen. George S. Patton arl-handled revolv handed them to a doorman, and joined a reception at the Copenhagen resi- dence of American Minister Mo- nett Davis. He was piloted on a quick hand-shaking tour of the room by his host, stopping briefly meet Repres Henry on of Everett, W Jackson, in turn, Patton to Dr. ish sc ater s leading moved his introduced Bohr, famed’ was one to dev the basic pment of the atom bomb. Bohr had refused to pursue his 1 further for the Nazis, despite their enticin: offers Patton grasped Dr. Bohr's hand but not realizing who he was, had started to turn away when Con- gressman Jackson said: eneral, this the whose basic discoveries ‘much to do with the atom bomb.' Patton wheeled in his tra stuck his hand out again, and said Dr. Bohr had so is ientist whose discovery of | of BigYear KOREANS IN Isfacing PROTEST TO Aviation NEW RULING Mass Demonstration in Seoul-American Troops Are Alerted IN THREAT TO RESIGN Will Take Entire Cabinet Industry Leaders Most Op- With Him-Defense timistic in Statements Fund s Cause ; Made Today . Jan 1 PARIS President De' NEW YORK, Jan 1—Awation in-! SEQUL, Korea, Jan. 1.—Between Gaulle threatened to to resign|dustry leaders looked to 1946 as 20,000 and 30,000 Koreans, demand- with his ¢ net in protest aga their greatest peacetime year. ing “Independence Now,” paraded E: cialist-C munist attempt ini In a y end statement Ernest |this capital city's ice-covered streets the Consultative Assembly to sh Breech, president of Bendix New Year's Eve in a mass protest naticnal defense credits 20 pe ent ation Corporation, said: “The |@gainst the five-year trusteeship set The action plunged France into aviation industry fa the fact up by the Moscow pact to govern another sericus governmental crisis.' that while volume is coming down, | their countr. The Socialist party, second mo: arch costs are going “,,_1 The demonstration was orderly, in inumerous in the Assembly, propos- » necessity for exploring entirely | contrast to knife fighting which &d 1ast hight S Gt of anest new phases of aerodynamics, to- | broke out two days-ago. Then, some the government's request for 125,000,- gether with jet, gas turbine and | Koreans hurled stones at Yanks 000,000 francs ($1,049,450,088) for the rocket propulsion and guided mis-, Americans were conspiclous by army in the first quarter of 1946, siles will entail greatly increased |thelr absence from the scenc of the They found immediate support from financial appropriations for r ilatest demonstration. However, hal the Communist party, largest group Search. To guard our security, Am- {tracks and three tank destroyers lini the AssemBbiy " erica must be pre-eminent in the Were placed near Lt. Gen. John R technical and production skill re-|FHodge's, occupation ‘headquarters The amendment was ofierzd ouired to apply these new de-|Just in case. Troops were alerted. ing an all-night session while the velopments o the high=perform- (There still is no news of reaction Assembly W oting. - -the ragular nd naval afreraft of | i trasteeship plan in Northeri) budget in which ordifiary expense Koren, which is occupied by Russian estima were placed at 487,000,- ! soldiers.) 000,000 francs ($4,092.436,900) and re- _ Willlam M. Allen, president of { DD celpts estimated at 311,000,000,000 Boeing IAm raft Co., said “rehiring | cs (82,613.45.389) b of employes layed off at the time . By morning Minister of State Vin- “So youre the guy that almost cw me Qut.af.a.job!” He and the Danish scientist then settled down for a long chat about atomic power. PEART. HARBOR HITS GOLD Despite coid water thrown by Democratic bigwigs, the highly important when it comes to | voted. the vital problem of keeping ‘the | future peace. | A procession of men, beginning with Gen. Marshall, \l(’sufl(d before the Pearl Harbor | Committee that they did not want Secretary of State Hull to send his | showdown note to Japan on Nov. 27, 1941, because Japan was betm prepared than we and they wanted |to spar for time. Sparring for time was the ipolicy of the U. S. Army and | Navy for more than a year before | Pearl Harbor. Yet, just prior to | that, they, themselves, had seri- jously undermined Hull's policy by | permitting the sale of airplanes |and munitions to Japan. In other ‘v\mds the military made Hull's | policy ineffective and then com- p!amed about the. results of the | policy which they had sabotaged. i L eagaibn i 1of Douglas Aircraft. As the Doug- las people state quite correctly, ’they received permission from the War Department before Gen. Te- rauchi made his amazing visit to whole | /Corzinued on Page Fo'ur) et \C WORLD OPENS el Pearl |cent Auriol told the Asszmbly Gen Harbor probe has developed some|De Gaulle would “consider his task hitherto little-known information, | impossible” if the amendment, were military-naval | ten per cent redumon HISTORY'S BLOODIEST WAR has now begun. We expect there| will continue to be a gradual in- Be B ' M Wh crease in employment during the es an en next several months as the new | year ata: dbdsr Way'i We, e (,p.,l_oy Marl(ey Are Wed The Socialists then presented De timistic that the future will pro- r Gaulle a compromise calling for a vide a substantially larger opera- tion in Boeing plants than did pre- - war days. The use of aircraft in general has increased tremendously wAvE OF GU“FIRE in the past several years, and should increase a good deal more with the advent of new planes SANTA MONICA, Calif, Jan. 1.— Adm. William F. Halsey, Sr., will be best man at the wedding later this week of screen actress Myrna Loy and Commedore Gene Markey, the former movie producer said after he and Miss Loy obtained a marriage TS license here yesterday. Markey, who served on Halsey's staff when the latter was comman- der of the Third Fleet in the Soutl.- west Pacific, said the ceremony | | would take place probably Wedn2: day or Thursday in the San Diego, {Calif,, Navy Base chapel 7 a Hal - eee Xavier Cugat Is having lower opcratm(., costs. BATAVIA, Java, terical wave of gu ed as a New Yea Eve celebration and was expanded by rumor into goundless reports of a general Ir Jan, 1—4 donesian upr reésulted today Sty i in the death of at least one British T; W YO:CK- Jfl“x R VlVHl;um‘ soldier. Several other persons were ODWyer, who came from Ireland in{ ity 810,10 WER ik o flny Tabors ook ued by His Male over today as Mayor of the nation’s For more than an hour, Batavia largest city. | resounded to a barrage of gunfire set off by celebrants, joined later | by a group of persons firing blindly in what some of them called “self defense.” Police attributed the incident to ”alcuhrl‘ und nervousness.” LOS ANGELES, Jan. I1—Xavier Cugat, rumba dance maestro, actor and cartoonist, w cast today in a Inauguration ceremonies were set! for noon at the City Hall. The 55- | year-old Mayor’s predecessor, Fior- inew role. He named defendant, ello H. La Guardia, who held thein a separate maintenanca suit. filed office for 12 years, is expected td'[by Mrs. Carmen Castillo Cugat, 49, attend. ,or Mexico. He married her in 1929, [PHOTOS TELL STORY OF THE MOST THRILLING EVENTS OF 1945 | IS UINS ENDED PRESIDENT ROOSEVlElT P Population WAR FREED ONE MILLION In WestIs NATIONS IN 'NEW YORKERS Onincrease QBSERVANCE JAM SQUARE Warning Is Sounded by Nofe of Hope for Future New Year Greefed in Tra- o g g e Bl . B W reeted in Tra Heard in Counfries ditional Fashion—Night ployment Service | Hungry and Cold Spots Were Packed Wt ot e Sa e Lo - (By. THp. Kmoclatod: Breat) NEW YORK, Jan. 1—One mil- million more residents than it hod | The World, free’ from war fop|Mon © frensiecis SRreises - JAnsat before the war, F. W. Hunter, | the first time in six years, greeted | Times Square in traditional fashion gional Director of the U. S. {the New Year on a note of hope|at midnight as New York and the ployment Service, predicted today | today but in many lands the cele- | nation gave a tumultuous welcome p | brations were tempered by hunger, | to 1946. in a year-engl statement on empl ment, The throng, whose size was of- ficially estimated by Police Com- old left in the | wake sorrow and strife of marching armies. He said there is urgent need for| i an expanded employment program| 1 . United Slates all stope | EormIones SIS I 1n the Western States thfs year, | o e B e om feee | TiD & BIESEME: S S “West Coast (»n;x)l.tl\'xn':|]; l(‘\‘l‘i““‘ out. Across the nation fr()lr:hhoulsl whistles, horm blasts and in the first-quarter of 1046 will de- | 05t to coast, milllons jammed " shrigks of *Joy SN« EHE VNI S pendl Targely,” he doclabdd ipon tha| Lt Olubs, - poted ot Sakl. TS e joint, efforts of management, labor | CrShiiy-lighted strcels, and yEles, The celebeiHon: eNNENG oA ] 8! » themselves hoarse in the loudest [one of the most orderly in years id_government in Overcoming ob- | 4" idect celebrations since 1939 acles in three major objectives: | - the despite unleashed hilarity, Wallander said. Up into the early “1-—Provide new job opportunities It was tiic same in the grea 4 by accelerating expansion of western ' capitals of the United Nations morning. heirs: e leus! been. o industries, trades and services. threughout the world. In Moscow bz, DropREhEv( hief ported. More than 2,000 polieemen were ort ‘duty in’the Times Square area. An unusual aspect was a record- breaking demand for champagne. "Z—Takg emergency action to re- Pariz. London and Chungking wing lleve housing shoftages hampering ! flowed freely and toasts were drunk reconversion and employment | to friendship. The swank hotels “3—Take direct action in breaking | were filled with gay throngs and bottlenecks of material shortages private parties lasted far into the through increasing stockpiles of morning. . Nation in Revelry materials urgently needed to pro- 4 vide jobs (lumber, metals, rubber,| In Germany and Japan the day re\il:r;Wh:/;z L‘:‘ ihen;n;:nw:?: oil and fabricated products—includ- | was observed with sobriety. There : though there was prayer along ing surplus property held by the!was little ~gaiety in the homb-|wm‘ the: Hakhikriahs o armed services.)” | wrecked cities, where many fami- attended. in CNEholic ;:hlumrch:: while >+ | lies quietly drank a carefully- many 'Pmtesmnt Booes of S . 1)](:iirdf‘:i \I;Ollllo dn{ wn.x‘rf AL 2% ship opened their doors for mid- Mov'e A('ress ls ma ned cold and hungry Ihighit. sarvisole | Hailed With Hope City buses in Detroit provided a M "I 'B b B Berlin newspapers hailed the | “whoopomobile” service for those 0 e”) a y oy new year with hope that it would | whose footing became unsteady — be a turning point for a “better |during the night. The buses went HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1.—Mother- Germany,” while the Japanese|as much as two blocks off their heod came to screen actress Pris-|heard their emperor admit in @ |courses to take passengers home cilla Lane in the closing hours of new year rescript that he was not after 1 a. m. 1945. A seven-pound boy was born divine and informed them that New Orleans staged a blowout of to her only two days after her hus- they were not destined to rule | Mardi Gras proportions on Canal band, Maj. Joseph Howard, returned the world. Street and Sugar Bowl football teams were feted at a hotel party. One enterprising candidate for mayor issued a blanket invitation for everybody m town to come to his own celebration and promised music, drinks, food and entertain- ment for all. San Prancisco, fearfu: of a night reminiscent of the V-J celebration Despite the problems which be- set the world, messages of hope were voiced from many quarters. Pope Pius XIT, in an address to the papal guards, expressed opti- mism for the future and said he was thankful that the year 1945 saw the end of the terrible world conflict. ! from duty on Guam. They named| the inIunt Joseph Lawrence - o Wage Boost May Be Accepieq by Keymen WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. — The In a message of encouragement ' which resulted in great damage on General Committee of the AFL to the French people, President de | Market Street, took steps to pre- vent such a recurrence and mer- Gaulle said France was beginning chants boarded up their store win- the new year “with ardor and with Commercial Telegraphers Union has recommended that its 58 Western union locals accept a War Labor courage,” and added “we know that|dows. Board award of wage increases aver- many obstacles remain to be sur- JESRRS C C aging 12 cents an hour. mounted but we know also that| vVeneer is a thin sheet of superior ‘The locals have been standing by everywhere we are making pro- [ wood covering the surface of infer- for a smkc call January 7. gress.” ASSES GANIZE PQSTWAR LABOR STRIKES BEGIN )\ ANIZE